New York City kids would rather starve than eat the cut-rate cafeteria food being rolled out across the city — with options such as chickpea stew, veggie burgers and zucchini-carrot breakfast bread filling up public school trash cans, The Post has learned.
New menus implemented by the city Department of Education this month dumped student favorites such as pizza and French Fries in favor of less expensive menus that City Hall claims are healthier for kids, but are packed with unpopular vegetarian foods like “veggie nuggets” and Guisado Kidney Beans.
“Even though they are pushing these vegan menus down the kids’ throats, so much of it goes in the garbage because the kids don’t like it,” one Brooklyn elementary principal, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
The principal said that when he questioned why the DOE had scrapped items kids love, such as BBQ chicken thighs and legs, a food supervisor cited “the rising cost of food” and called such menu favorites “too expensive.”
